"As the widespread MBA application slump hardened into a three-year trend at U.S. business schools this year, no top-10 school took a bigger hit than Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business. (In fact few schools outside the top 10 were as severely impacted, either.) The Tuck School lost 22.5% of its MBA application volume compared to the previous cycle, down to 2,032 total apps from 2,621 in 2017-2018. The huge drop sent Tuck’s acceptance rate soaring by more than 11 percentage points, to 34.5% for this year’s entering class.
The falloff appeared more severe in part because the school’s performance in numerous rankings over the past year has been nothing short of awful. It started with The Economist, which dropped Tuck four places to 12th. Bloomberg Businessweek ranked the school 19th, down 12 positions, from seventh a year earlier. In U.S. News, Tuck also fell out of the top 10 earlier this year, sliding from 8th to 12th, tied with NYU Stern and Virginia Darden. Tuck is currently ranked ninth among U.S. business schools in Poets&Quants‘ composite ranking." …